Abbreviations used
Date September 20 1856
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Henry SAUNDERS s/o Hon. John Simcoe SAUNDERS, Fredericton (York Co.) attended a meeting of the Masonic Lodge last eve. between 10 and 11 o'clock. Afterwards he left town in a carriage on a shooting excursion with James JOHNSTON, their object to be early on the shooting ground in Lincoln (Sunbury Co.) next morning; When about two miles from the city, one of their guns went off accidently, the whole contents passing through his side and causing his immediate death. - Fredericton Reporter